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Public Works: multiagency task force will support enhanced sidewalk vending enforcement under proposed local rules
Summary
Director Carla Short told the commission illegal sidewalk vending hotspots persist and that a proposed Board of Supervisors ordinance, informed by recent state law changes, would enable escalating penalties; Public Works said enforcement is a coordinated, multiagency effort with night operations and involvement by the Department of Public Health for food vendors.
Carla Short, Public Works Director, briefed commissioners on sidewalk vending enforcement and a pending local response to recent state law changes affecting vending.
"The vending enforcement is really a multi agency task force that works together," Short said, describing Public Works as the lead agency on merchandise vending with the Department of Public Health responsible for food-vending enforcement and law enforcement engaged under certain circumstances.
Short said the Board of Supervisors Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee is considering an…
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